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METALLICA REVEAL TIMESCALE FOR NEW ALBUM30th July 2012

Although the news broke on Friday that Metallica were set to begin work on a new album in September, drummer Lars Ulrich doesn't want fans to get too anxious about the upcoming release and is "realistically" expecting the band's tenth album to come out in early 2014.

Ulrich took part in an interview with the Vancouver, Canada radio station 99.3 The Fox, and revealed Metallica's tiemscale for their next album.

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"I wouldn’t use the word close", says Ulrich. "I mean, obviously, in the context of, say, the age of planet Earth, we're pretty close. But in the context of, say, other things, there may be one or two football seasons, or one or two baseball seasons, or one or two hockey seasons... We've gotta do this movie, and we're gonna get back to writing when we've done this movie."

He continues, "I would say late 2013 or early 2014. It's difficult to imagine. I think even late '13 may be a bit optimistic. I would say hopefully we can realistically get a record out probably about a year and half from now, so maybe early '14."

Metallica's 3D film will be much more than just a concert experience. The concert footage will be shot on Aug. 24 – 25 in Vancouver on a giant 140-foot-by-50-foot stage that will showcase "colossal components and striking visual elements spanning Metallica's entire 30-year career," while the accompanying narrative will be filmed afterward.

"The rest of the film will be shot the next two or three weeks after the shows in Vancouver, into the middle to the third week of September," the drummer says.

"The film is a narrative, and the rest of the stuff that goes on outside of the concert is not going to feature members of Metallica in any way, shape or form. It's a split narrative that kind of runs parallel to the concert."